Tag Archives: creative commons

Quibbling About Copyright and Fair Use Is Off Target

The recent release of a “best practices” guide to copyright and fair use has generated the typical echo effect among educational bloggers. It is pretty obvious from my previous comments that there is something about more and more liberal interpretation of “fair use” that annoys me. The exact source of this annoyance is difficult to [...]

Flickr Frustration – Attribution

I am working on the appropriate solution for a hypothetical problem. Let’s say you are searching for images for your own use and you locate an appropriate image within Flickr. The page claims the image is available under Creative Commons and the license says “attribution”. What is the appropriate attribution? The owner of the image [...]

Pictures for Projects

Locating images for projects is regarded by many as a challenge. When possible, I think there is educational benefit in capturing images personally. However, this option is sometimes not available. Andrew Ferguson (goldengod) explains and provides links to Creative Commons sources. Note that this post was not written with a focus on educational applications. Note [...]